Improvement in machines for splitting wood



F. WAGNER.

improvement in Machines for Splitting Wood.

N0.1Z8,830, Patented July 9,1872.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANZ WAGNER, OF NEW YORK, n. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR SPLITTING WOOD,

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,830, dated July 9,1872 antedated June 28, 1872.

SPEOIFIOLTION.

I, FRANZ WAGNER, of the city, county, and State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Machine for Splitting -Wood; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a partof this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of theapparatus, showing the mode of using it. Fig. 2 is a side view of theknife. Fig. 3 is a top View Fig. 4 is a side View of the support. Fig. 5is a top View of thesame.

The object of my invention is to split kindling-wood in a noiseless andeasy manner, which is effected by hooking a knife-shaped lever in aperforated support, placing the object under the edge of the knife, andpressing the lever'downwa'rd.

A, Figs. 2 and 3, represents a knife-shaped lever with its hook B andknife 0. D, Figs. 4 and 5, represents the support with a number ofholes, E E, in which hook B is able to enter, and with projecting piecesF F F to be fastened by screws to any permanent place or frame towithstand the pressure.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The lever A with its knife-blade (J and hooked end B combined with thesupport 1), constructed substantially as and for the purpose described.

FRANZ \VAGNER.

Witnesses:

THEODORE A. WEBER, CHRISTIAN DILZ.

